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Alabama cities gear up to defend police jurisdiction authority
Rickey StokesViewed: 3007
Posted by: RStokes
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Date: Oct 19 2019 12:12 AM
The Alabama League of Municipalities announced its priorities for the 2020 legislative session this week, including a plan to oppose legislation that would roll back how cities and towns can tax and regulate people and businesses just outside their limits.
Alabama law says that cities with populations of 6,000 or more have police jurisdictions that extend three miles beyond the city limits. For cities and towns with populations less than 6,000, the jurisdictions extend 1.5 miles.
Municipalities that provide services like police and fire protection in their police jurisdictions can collect sales taxes and business license taxes at up to one-half the rate they collect in the municipal limits. The municipality has to spend those tax dollars in the police jurisdiction.
Earlier this year, Sen. Chris Elliott, R-Fairhope, proposed a bill saying that police jurisdiction and taxing authority stops at municipal limits. The Senate amended the bill to grandfather in existing police jurisdictions and tax rates. The bill would have eliminated building code enforcement in police jurisdictions. It did not pass the House.
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